棄 – abandon, throw away, discard

13 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#901 in newspaper frequencyN1 vocabulary

The kanji 棄 means abandon, throw away, discard, resign, reject, sacrifice. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is キ (ki); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is す.てる (suteru). It is written with 13 strokes, under radical 木 (no. 75).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	キ	ki
Kun’yomi	す.てる	suteru

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 木 (Kangxi radical 75). Components: 一・木・亠・凵・厶.

Words using 棄

廃棄はいきdisposal棄権きけんabstention (from voting)破棄はきtearing up and discarding (e.g. documents)

Example sentences

もう一つの面白いエネルギー源は、放射能の廃棄物質から取り出せる熱である。

Another interesting source of energy is the heat that can be recovered from radioactive waste material.

Tatoeba #194350

いざ投票という時、彼は棄権した。

When it was time to vote, he abstained.

Tatoeba #229133

これらの書類に関しては破棄することが一番いいと思う。

With respect to these documents, I think the best thing is to destroy them.

Tatoeba #217874

Kanji with the same radical

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